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Kathryn Posin

Kathryn Posin studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, and Hanya Holm. She has choreographed works for Ballet West; Netherlands Dans Theater I and II; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II; the Eliot Feld Ballet; the Ohio, Kansas City, Sacramento, Cincinnati, and Hartford Ballets; Balletmet; Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah; and the Extemporary Dance Company of London. She was the first international choreographer to stage a work for Cloudgate Dance Theater of Taiwan. Posin is a recipient of American Dance Festival's Doris Humphrey Fellowship. Meet the Composer commissioned her work for the Milwaukee Ballet, Stepping Stones, which has since been performed by five ballet companies. Meet the Composer also awarded her a commission for the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. Posin's Galena Summit was voted Choreography of the Year by The Boston Globe, and her Four World Songs won first place in the Sarasota Ballet's 1996 Choreographic Competition. Her Scheherazade, a box-office hit for the Milwaukee Ballet, was also staged for the Louisville and Sacramento Ballets and Nevada Ballet Theatre. In theater, she choreographed the hit rock musical Salvation with Bette Midler and Richard Gere as well as The Cherry Orchard with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia, directed by Andrei Serban at Lincoln Center. She coached Jennifer Jason Leigh in Al Pacino's production of Salome. For her own company, The Kathryn Posin Dance Company, she has choreographed more than 50 works. In 1999 Posin conceived and designed the Joffrey/New School B.F.A. in Dance and was named founding chair. She writes frequently for Dance Magazine.

News

Professor Kathryn Posin's new program, "Voices of Bulgaria and America," debuted at the 92nd Street Y on October 17th, 2014. Her work was reviewed by the New York Times, and Eye on Dance.